Insurance Companies Warn Of Tachometer Manipulation

The old method of changing the vehicle tachometers or ‘Clocking’ is continuing to be a major danger when drivers purchase a new car, motor insurance companies have warned.

The term ‘Clocking’ means to manipulate the vehicle’s tachometer to reduce the apparent mileage of a car is a very common occurrence. It is reported to have been seen in around 1.3 million vehicles since 1990.

This is despite a stringent tightening of the system applied to used car sales. This helps to ensure that dealers must display the true mileage if they discover that a tachometer has been messed around with. There are now new ideas being brought forward to again try and reduce this type of thing in the future. Discussions of these measures are still the beginning stages but there is a very good possibly that the new actions will take place sooner than expected if all goes well.

Car insurance firms say that an average 5,000 calls are made to the National Mileage Register every day by dealers and buyers trying to verify a vehicles mileage.

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